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Seniors’ centre on target

Construction of the West
Vancouver senior citizens’
activity centre will take
place right on schedule and
be within the budget,
Alderman Robert Hicks told
council last week.

“A rumor was recently
circulated that the project
was not poing, ahead, but

‘cally the situation ts
anything but that.” Hicks
said.

He saic that, after ob-
taining Advisory Design
Panel and fire marshal
approval on March, the

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project management
committee will call tenders
in April and actual con-
struction of the $1.2 million
facility will begin in May --
to be completed next spring.

Hicks also squashed
another rumor that the
centre's kitchen would be

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eliminated or changed.

The recommend kitchen is
still being built and will have
space and facilities for
catering banquets. “To
create a commercial-style
xuchen at this point would
place the total project well

_over budget,” Hicks said.

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The Second Narrows rail
bridge - repaired at a cost of
$6 million - is expected to
open today (Sunday) after a
four and a half month
shutdown since the bridge
collapsed when struck by a
Japanese freighter during fog
October 12.

And for at least the next
10 days no ships will be able
to pass beneath the bridge as
new cables have to be in-
stalled once the centre span
has been lowered today.

CN Rail gangs will align
the raul tracks and then the

first train, with a load of
crushed rocks, will cross
from the Lynn Creek yard,
headed for Surrey, eithe:
later today or early Monday
morning, complete with
caboose for the benefit of
reporters and camera crews.

CN spokesman Al Menard
said the volume of trains
crossing the bridge will
resume to its normal! level, as
soon as the centre span has

’ been lowered.

The bridge will carry
desperately needed com-
modities to North Shore

industnes which have beeu

Jewellery, silverware recovered

A Seymour man who
returned to his home to find
someone had broken into it
managed toapprehend the
thief with the help _of
neighbor after a tussle INHe
street, according to RCMP.

And detectives say that as
a result of the = ap-
prehension of the man,
reported to be a heroin user,
they have wrapped up an
additional 30-35 break-ins.

Police say the man who
encountered the intruder
returned to his home on
Beaufort Road, near Mount
Seymour Parkway, recently.
and found the intruder there
on his arrival .

After a chase into the
street, a tussle started
between the intruder, the
home owner and a neighbor
who came to help, during
which the home owner was
said to have been bitten on
the eyebrow.

RCMP allege that a pillow
case containing $7-10,000
worth of jewellery and other
stolen property was
recovered.

As a result of the arrest,
stolen property linked to 30-
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has also been recovered.

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crippled since the October
knockdown.

Among the damages suits
filed against the owners of
the Japanese ship Japan
Erica, whose captain has
been blamed in a jederai
Transport Depa::ment
report as Causing the disaster
after setting sail in chick fog,
is likely to be a claim by CN
for $10 million.

In addition to the %6
million bridge repair, the
company is adding the cost
of re-routing trains on the
BC. Rail line ‘via Prince
George.

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custody, charged with threc
counts of break and entry,
one of possession of stoien
property and one of assault

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